Yastrzemski clears centerfield wall
On May 16, 1970 — At Fenway Park, in the 8th inning with the score tied at 2, Carl Yastrzemski belts a Dean Chance pitch out of the park to give the red sox a 5-2 lead. Ray Culp is the 6 – 2 winner over Cleveland.
Carl Yastrzemski, with perhaps the longest homerun ever hit in Fenway Park gave it to them yesterday. Yastrzemski’s three run homer In the eighth inning snapped a five-game losing streak.
Yaz hit a rising line drive through a crosswind over the back wall of the centerfield bleachers with two men on base. “When I hit it, I knew it was something special,” said Yaz. “Only two or three times in my life I’ve hit a ball and felt absolutely nothing on the bat. You only get this sensation when the ball is hit perfectly. This was one of those times.”
According to Red Sox publicity director Bill Crowley, Yastrzemski is only the sixth man in the 58-year history of Fenway to clear the wall to the right of the flagpole in center. The others were Jimmy Foxx, Hank Greenberg, Mickey Mantle, Bill Skowron and Don Lenhardt, presently with the Sox. a coach Most of the veteran Fenway observers believe Yaz is the first lefthander ever to do it.
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